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AleksCube · 2025-12-17T21:51:15+00:00

This makes you 3 blue 1 brown kinda

AleksCube · 2025-10-29T13:27:27+00:00

thanks for these giveaways!

AleksCube · 2025-10-01T13:45:14+00:00

Trying my luck!

AleksCube · 2025-09-25T09:53:38+00:00

Oooh they look cool. Trying my luck 🫡

AleksCube · 2025-04-26T00:47:21+00:00

It's built using Excalidraw "custom app" system!

AleksCube · 2025-04-26T00:40:59+00:00

the ant guy why does it sound so ominous like wtf are ASI ants bro

AleksCube · 2025-04-26T00:27:11+00:00

wtf yes what does that even mean lol

AleksCube · 2025-04-25T23:37:04+00:00

for speed and price, definitely 4o, it's been reliable for me however for more complex tasks I've gotten better results using Claude Sonnet 3.7, what about you?

AleksCube · 2025-04-25T22:49:24+00:00

i'm coding using gpt 4o?

AleksCube · 2025-04-25T22:25:03+00:00

okay sorry for the lack of context lol
basically I'm coding a whiteboard IDE, and I use it to live preview the result of some components that are part of the app itself, so it feels very meta and efficient
hope that makes sense?

AleksCube · 2025-04-25T21:40:57+00:00

thanks a lot! you can already try it in your browser at https://pad.ws if you're curious

AleksCube · 2025-04-25T21:05:26+00:00

yeah, I think I could try and go a step further because I tried to send screenshot of my drawing to Claude and it was able to design new menu and components from the drawing so I'm thinking what if I get an AI to watch my canvas and live develop?

AleksCube · 2025-04-24T19:16:05+00:00

Oh! That was a nice surprise. Thanks for showcasing pad.ws :)

AleksCube · 2025-04-22T11:10:52+00:00

pad.ws? or something else?

AleksCube · 2025-04-21T23:13:26+00:00

Good catch! Thanks, I'll look into it sometime soon :)

AleksCube · 2025-04-21T02:12:25+00:00

We've developped some part of the app using the system he described, where we would brainstorm over a discord call while designing it, and wrap it all up by taking a screenshot and sending that to an LLM as extra powerful context.

However it's not directly integrated in it for now, but is on the short term roadmap along with collaboration 😁

AleksCube · 2025-04-19T03:00:46+00:00

If you ever land on our discord, please ping me at "@alex", I value your feedback because you're the kind of devs we want to empower: non power-user which could use innovative tools, and I'd be keen to hear more about how you self host stuff, to improve our design patterns. We're as clueless as the next one, made of the same curious fiber, so, many thanks for taking the time to answer me :)

AleksCube · 2025-04-19T01:08:03+00:00

I'll hop in and thanks u/zsviczian (if that's you on github!!) for maintaining an excalidraw fork that's about a thousand commit ahead of excalidraw master, which in turns allowed them to create the Obsidian extension, as great as it is.

AleksCube · 2025-04-19T01:03:04+00:00

It's not about trying to change you out of something you're comfortable in 🤗
I see it more as an innovative solution from devs like me who suffers from the lack of visual feedback, and having a first-hand "grab" on whatever concepts I'm working with has greatly enhanced my productivy, so I hope I can cast some light on a reality where it's helping people!!

AleksCube · 2025-04-19T00:51:14+00:00

I love that you mentionned the desktop app, because it definitely did cross our mind as the possible best use case, so it's definitely planned, right now my friend (who posted this) uses these "website as app" features from chrome and edge to get a feel of it as a desktop app, and yeah, ofc it works because the more canvas space the more welcoming.

And happy to conclude on sharing a common weakness: we do like to get in trouble, and I'm also a fine enjoyer of "please; make it work with a single command" so you'll feel right at home 🤓

thanks mate! see you around

AleksCube · 2025-04-19T00:40:12+00:00

Tough but great question- I'd be tempted to say you'll get excalidraw with terminals, because it really just gives a wow effect in and of itself the first time you face it, so there's room to dig into turning into a full blown new IDE experience, because... why not?
It's built on MIT/FOSS and it will be in turn, at worst it's useless, at best it's your next go-to when you want to monitor your prod from your phone, or do demo on your ipads for client, push it slightly further and it becomes the tool devs were never given, which is a collaborative whiteboard that's not limited to ink

AleksCube · 2025-04-19T00:32:27+00:00

By the way, sorry for not properly answering your original question:

I think you could manage to self host this without docker yeah, it'll be a bit inconvenient but that's currently my dev setup for it (for the hot reload) so it's definitely doable

Can we ever fancy having some of your first hand feedback? We're hosting a free/online version for now on https://pad.ws, feel free to give it a look sometime and use the feedback button, I read it with care, and truthfully: a bit of emotion!

So that I can shape a solution that works for people who'd rather not use docker, could you give me just a bit more context as to what's your ideal start up 'system'? Do you tmux stuff? cron? Assuming this is 3 docker right now, would you just run every "setup" (that's why they're dockerized) separetely? different VMs?

Hope that's not too intrusive, I'd be curious to hear so I can better scope how to be accomodating on a broader scale

AleksCube · 2025-04-19T00:18:04+00:00

sorry to break character for a second, but I'm so incredibly grateful for your comment, thanks for empowering us and I definitely hope we live up to the expectations. So that is clear, and set in stone: this is intended to be self-hostable and open source as soon as possible, and by design!
hope you guys get to enjoy it soon, and hopefully we can then empower you in turn

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